First horror film ever

God, so weird to see this again, this was literally the very first horror movie (well, outside corny disney "scary movie" type horror) I ever saw. I remember going to the video store and finding the box when I was about 7 or so, my mom tried to convince me that an R rating meant it was "retarded" and tried to get me to pick another one but I ended up flatly insisting I get to see the cool movie with the alligator on it. Finally she relented and I got this. I remember absolutely loving it, thought it was the most hard-core thing ever in the history of the world. In retrospect, I could have picked one hell of a lot more better movies.

Come to think of it, my mom was pretty awesome, letting me rent an R rated graphic horror film at 7 lol...began a lifelong love of horror cinema and grindhouse films. But then, my mom actually sat with me and was willing to explain the distinction between reality and a movie where most parents use movies as electronic babysitters these days, so I guess it was just a different era. We didn't worry that a grindhouse horror flick would turn our children into gun-toting mass school spree killers...kind of surprised in retrospect I wasn't scared to death at that age, but I just kind of treated it like an incredibly intense action film...good times lol

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"I have often laughed at weaklings
who thought themselves good because
they had no claws."